AHCJ is compiling a list of lobbying and advocacy groups, including information on who funds them, their membership and who they really represent.
If you have information to add to this list, please send it to web@healthjournalism.org.
In addition to this list, the Center for Science in the Public Interest has compiled a similar list of "Nonprofit organizations with ties to industry."
The Center for Consumer Freedom is a nonprofit coalition of restaurants, food companies, and consumers. Its Web site says it promotes personal responsibility and that "The growing cabal of 'food cops,' health care enforcers, militant activists, meddling bureaucrats, and violent radicals who think they know 'what's best for you' are pushing against our basic freedoms. We're here to push back." See a 60 Minutes piece about a the group's executive director.
Coalition for Medicare Choices – created by America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) in 1999
Partnership for Quality Care – affiliated with Service Employees International Union
The Kansas Health Institute has a list of Kansas-based organizations and information about their goals and priorities. Organizations listed include:
- Kansas Advocates for Better Care
- Big Tent Coalition
- Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved
- Kansas Faith Alliance for Health Policy
- Kansas Health Consumer Coalition
- Kansas Home Care Coalition
- Kansas Public Health Association
- National Alliance on Mental Illness-Kansas
- Oral Health Kansas
- Safe Kids Kansas
- Tobacco Free Kansas Coalition
